Bruce K. Berger served in Vietnam in 1970 with the Casualty Branch of the 101 st Airborne Division. In 2021, his poetry book, Fragments: The Long Coming Home from Vietnam, received the Gold Medal for Best Book of War Poetry by the Military Writers’ Society of America. In 2023 Book Authority ranked Fragments #6 on its list of the 100 Best Vietnam War Books. Today he’s professor emeritus, University of Alabama, where he taught communications for 17 years. Before teaching, he spent 20 years as a communicator for two global corporations and worked on diverse projects in more than 30 countries.